I need to find a cooling fan that will work with a AMD Athlon Thunderbird

[IronMentality]

I want to buy the best available liquid cooling fan (those are the best, correct?) that will work with the AMD Athlon Thunderbird.

I am a newbie to working inside a computer and all -- _any_ help is much appreciated. Thank you!

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by IronMentality I want to buy the best available liquid cooling fan (those are the best, correct?) that will work with the AMD Athlon Thunderbird.

"liquid cooling fan"? What's that? Do you mean water cooling?

Originally Posted by IronMentality I am a newbie to working inside a computer and all -- _any_ help is much appreciated. Thank you!

My suggestion is that since you're a "newbie to working inside a computer", forget about water cooling and just get a good regular heatsink with a good fan instead. Anything from Thermalright would work great.

Cricket

[Karnevil9]

I would have to agree with Cricket. You may want to be more familiar with computers before undertaking a water cooled system. Water and elelctrical components don't mix well. One leak and your system can become trash. If you just need a heat sink and fan, check out Speeze's Falcon Rock. Good heatsink/Fan and not very expensive.

[Craig100]

Also, unless you intend to heavily overclock, then air cooling will handle a thunderbird with no problems at all. You'll find that crickets recommendation, Thermalright range, will handle the job well.

Craig

[WhatsThisBoxFor?]

You could mean a heatsink with heat pipes, like some of Thermalrights range, although they are expensive and only really need for overclocking.

[Burn]

My second computer is an 1.2 Athlon Thunderbird , at first it was at 65 Celcius with a generic cpu fan ,, later i get a thermaltake volcano cu6+ and the temp dropped at 53 celicus ... good fan .. but noisy ..